Absorbent for perspiration.



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISADORE BASKIN, JOSEPH HOFFMAN, AND EDWARD MASTER, OF PITTSBURG, PENN- SYLVANIA.

ABSORBENT FOR PEBSPIRATION.

No Drawing.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ISADORE BASKIN, JosEPH HOFFMAN, and EDWARD MASTER, citizens of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Composition of Matter to be Used in Shoes as an Absorbent for Perspiration and to Ease Tired Feet, of which the following is a specification.

Our composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in or about the proportions stated, viz.: Zinc oxid, forty per cent; burnt alum, thirty per cent; spearmint leaves, five per cent; linden leaves, ten per cent; pulverized asbestos, ten per cent; violet leaves, five per cent. These ingredients are reduced to a powder and are then thoroughly mixed.

In using the above-named composition the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 22, 1909.

Patented Jan. 3, 1911. Serial No. 503,676.

powder is dusted into the shoe once in from two to four weeks. The combined ingredients form a mixture that will absorb all perspiration and prevent resulting irritation, thereby giving the person using the powder, ease and comfort.

e claim:

A composition consisting of zinc oxid, burnt alum, pulverized asbestos, powdered linden leaves, powdered Spearmint leaves, and powdered violet leaves substantially in the proportions specified.

In testimony whereof, we afliX our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

ISADORE BASKIN.

JOSEPH HOFFMAN.

EDWARD MASTER. WVitnesses:

D. B. OAKS, O. A. HENSEL. 

